The Callisto Protocol

It's hard to know how many copies have been sold in the years since release and it's equally hard to find definitive figures but: Dead Space 2 had sold 4 million by 2017, which was said to be similar to Dead Space, though the sequel cost more. And Dead Space 3 did worse - the only figure I can find (this is all Wikipedia) is 600,000 in its first month in North America.

The key thing is the latter two in particular, with their inflated budgets, were considered commercial failures by the geniuses at EA.

I smell sarcasm ...

£21.99 currently at Amazon, seem to be getting close to £20.

I'm thinking I either get this or put the money towards the dead space remake or Resi 4 thinking about it.

Definitely put the money towards the RE4R instead of this (not that I've played this yet of course)
I've got enough on the backlog already, so can wait for this to drop to a tenner or appear on GP.

You will be disappointed. Not bitterly I think.

It's not Dead Space or RE4, but it's still a bloody good game that has been mauled for no real reason imo. 

Mate, c'mon, there are many legitimate reasons. It's not some tiny independent game here, it's a very expensively made game that has some very clear issues with its gameplay and gameplay mechanics and those flaws were rightfully and legitimately called out.

If you were playing on the PC the experience would be even worse, I don't believe it's been fully fixed.

Also discount that the melee system falls completely apart if you have to face more than one enemy, little things like how long it takes a health pack to be applied, having to go into the menu to use a battery recharge and the cardinal sin of audio logs not playing automatically. These guys made Dead Space and they abandoned the the things the revolutionised. It's baffling.

I don’t agree but there we are. I can’t speak for the PC users but I pretty much got the experience I expected. Theirs is not the only game of late to fall apart on PC. A lot of the comments and hate I read directed at the devs was, quite frankly, embarrassing. Is it the best game ever? No. Did it deserve the kicking it got? No. But again that’s my opinion, and that’s all I have.

I probably just can’t accept the landscape has changed. I miss the days where you could enjoy a game despite its flaws. That’s blatantly not possible now. Silly me.

No one's telling you can't enjoy in the slightest, I'm saying it wasn't a great experience and I came away from it irritated rather than "yeah, that had flaws but I enjoyed it".I didn't enjoy it, there was promise but I feel it squandered that, it felt very cumbersome on purpose but the enemies were the opposite. Yes you can use weapons other than melee and I did, frequently in fact because the system that was in place wasn't fleshed out enough and yes there were many times where I was using melee on a single enemy and then a few others would hit me from behind.

There was quite bad checkpointing especially with that skiff battle that I did on the second time only because the melee system bugged out and didn't dodge on the mini boss. The severe lack of enemy variety and the same mini boss again and again plus a really shitty last boss. The lack of exploration, even for a linear game really hurt it and I didn't think it was scary at all even though it was blatantly trying to make you scared. I don't always follow reviews when they become a unified voice but they really called this one right.

They patched the melee thing. Then another group spoke up and said they preferred the old way.

You just can’t please everyone but also you’re not obliged to enjoy it beyond the gripes you have with it.

I just have the opinion that it got thrown to the wolves a little too quickly. One of the gripes was game length. I mean come on. We’re obviously in an age of Netflix binging and massive games but that’s still a decent length.

Again. In my view.

They were? Or the publisher were?

See you same place in about 3 or so months? I'll be wearing a white carnation.